Amsterdam

See also: Ámsterdam

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæmstəˈdæm/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæmstəɹˌdæm/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æm

Proper noun

Amsterdam

A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands.
The Dutch seat of government is not the metropolis of Amsterdam but The Hague.
While Amsterdam is the largest city in the province of Noord-Holland, Haarlem is the province capital.

Derived terms

Amsterdamer
New Amsterdam

Translations

capital of the Netherlands

Afrikaans: Amsterdam
Albanian: Amsterdami (sq) m, Amsterdam m (indefinite)
Amharic: አምስተርዳም (ʾämsətärdam)
Arabic: أَمْسْتِرْدَام‎ f (ʾamstirdām)
Armenian: Ամստերդամ (hy) (Amsterdam)
Azerbaijani: Amsterdam (az)
Basque: Amsterdam (eu)
Belarusian: Амстэрда́м m (Amsterdám)
Bengali: আমস্টারডাম (amôsṭarôḍam)
Bulgarian: Амстерда́м (Amsterdám)
Burmese: အမ်စတာဒမ်မြို့ (amca.tadammrui.)
Catalan: Amsterdam
Cherokee: ᎡᎻᏍᏔᏕᎻ (emistademi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 阿姆斯特丹 (aa³ mou⁵ si¹ dak⁶ daan¹)
Mandarin: 阿姆斯特丹 (zh) (Āmǔsītèdān)
Czech: Amsterdam (cs) m
Danish: Amsterdam (da)
Dutch: Amsterdam (nl) n
Esperanto: Amsterdamo (eo)
Estonian: Amsterdam (et)
Finnish: Amsterdam (fi)
French: Amsterdam (fr) m
Galician: Ámsterdam
Georgian: ამსტერდამი (amsṭerdami)
German: Amsterdam (de) n
Greek: Άμστερνταμ (el) n (Ámsterntam), (dated) Αμστελόδαμο (el) n (Amstelódamo)
Ancient Greek: Ἀμστελόδαμον n (Amstelódamon)
Hebrew: אַמְסְטֶרְדָּם‎ (he) f (ámsterdam)
Hindi: ऐम्स्टर्डैम m (aimsṭarḍaim), एम्स्टर्डम m (emsṭarḍam)
Hungarian: Amszterdam (hu)
Ido: Amsterdam
Indonesian: Amsterdam
Irish: Amstardam m
Italian: Amsterdam (it) f
Japanese: アムステルダム (ja) (Amusuterudamu)
Kashubian: Amsterdam (csb)
Kazakh: Амстердам (kk) (Amsterdam)
Khmer: អាំស្ទែដាំ (km) (ʼamstɛɛdam)
Korean: 암스테르담 (ko) (Amseutereudam)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Amsterdam (ku)
Kyrgyz: Амстердам (Amsterdam)
Lao: ອຳສະເຕີດຳ (ʼam sa tœ̄ dam)
Latin: Amstelodamum
Latvian: Amsterdama f
Limburgish: Amsterdam (li)
Lithuanian: Amsterdamas m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: Amsterdam
German Low German: Amsterdam
Macedonian: Амстердам m (Amsterdam)
Malay: Amsterdam
Maltese: Amsterdam
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Амстердам (Amsterdam)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Amsterdam (no)
Nynorsk: Amsterdam
Pashto: امستردام‎ m (amestardām)
Persian: آمستردام‎ (âmsterdâm)
Polish: Amsterdam (pl) m
Portuguese: Amesterdão (pt) (Portugal), Amsterdã (pt) f (Brazil)
Romanian: Amsterdam (ro) n
Russian: Амстерда́м (ru) m (Amstɛrdám)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: А̀мстердам m
Latin: Àmsterdam (sh) m
Sicilian: Amsterdam
Sinhalese: ඈම්ස්ටර්ඩෑම් (ǣmsṭarḍǣm)
Slovak: Amsterdam m
Slovene: Amsterdam m
Spanish: Amsterdam (es) m
Sranan Tongo: Damsko
Swedish: Amsterdam (sv)
Tagalog: Amsterdam
Tajik: Амстердам (Amsterdam)
Tamil: ஆம்ஸ்டர்டம் (āmsṭarṭam)
Tatar: Амстердам (Amsterdam)
Thai: อัมสเตอร์ดัม (th) (am-sà-dtəə-dam)
Tibetan: ཨེམ་སི་ཊར་ཌམ (em si ṭar ḍam)
Turkish: Amsterdam (tr)
Turkmen: Amsterdam
Ukrainian: Амстерда́м (uk) m (Amsterdám)
Urdu: ایمسٹرڈیم‎ m (aimsṭarḍaim)
Uzbek: Amsterdam
Vietnamese: Am Tước Đàm, Am-xtéc-đam
West Frisian: Amsterdam
Yiddish: אַמסטערדאַם‎ n (amsterdam)

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		Амстердам
Perso-Arabic		آمستئردام‎

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑmsterˈdɑm/
Audio (Baku) (file)

Proper noun

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /əms.təɾˈdam/

(Central) IPA^(key): /əms.tərˈdam/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ams.teɾˈdam/

Proper noun

Amsterdam m

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Derived terms

amsterdamès

Czech

Alternative forms

Amsterodam

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈamstɛrdam]

Proper noun

Amsterdam m

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Declension

Declension of Amsterdam

	singular
nominative	Amsterdam
genitive	Amsterdamu
dative	Amsterdamu
accusative	Amsterdam
vocative	Amsterdame
locative	Amsterdamu
instrumental	Amsterdamem

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Proper noun

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Dutch

Een gracht in Amsterdam.
A canal in Amsterdam.

Etymology

First attested as amestelledamme in 1275. From Middle Dutch Aemstelredam, from the river Amstel + dam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɑm.stərˈdɑm/
(Netherlands)
Amsterdam (file)
Hyphenation: Am‧ster‧dam
Rhymes: -ɑm

Proper noun

Amsterdam n

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)
Synonyms: 020, Damsko (nickname), Mokum (nickname), Venetië van het Noorden (nickname), Gròòtgragtegat (Carnival nickname)
Meronyms: Driemond, Durgerdam, Holysloot, Ransdorp, Schellingwoude, 't Nopeind, Weesp, Zunderdorp

Alternative forms

A'dam

Derived terms

amsterdammertje
Amsterdammer
Amsterdams
Amsterdamsewijk
Nieuw-Amsterdam

References

van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “amsterdam”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Proper noun

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Faroese

Proper noun

Amsterdam ?

Amsterdam (the capital of the Netherlands)

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑmsterdɑm/, [ˈɑms̠t̪e̞rdɑm]
Rhymes: -ɑmsterdɑm
Syllabification^(key): Ams‧ter‧dam

Proper noun

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Declension

Inflection of Amsterdam (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Amsterdam	—
genitive		Amsterdamin	—
partitive		Amsterdamia	—
illative		Amsterdamiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Amsterdam	—
accusative	nom.	Amsterdam	—
accusative	gen.	Amsterdamin	—
genitive		Amsterdamin	—
partitive		Amsterdamia	—
inessive		Amsterdamissa	—
elative		Amsterdamista	—
illative		Amsterdamiin	—
adessive		Amsterdamilla	—
ablative		Amsterdamilta	—
allative		Amsterdamille	—
essive		Amsterdamina	—
translative		Amsterdamiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Amsterdamitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Amsterdam (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Amsterdamini	Amsterdamimme
2nd person	Amsterdamisi	Amsterdaminne
3rd person	Amsterdaminsa

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /am.stɛʁ.dam/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Amsterdam ?

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌamstɐˈdam/

Proper noun

Amsterdam n (proper noun, genitive Amsterdams or (optionally with an article) Amsterdam)

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Derived terms

Amsterdamer

Icelandic

Proper noun

Amsterdam f

Amsterdam (the capital of the Netherlands)

Italian

Proper noun

Amsterdam f

Amsterdam

Derived terms

Nuova Amsterdam

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam, from Middle Dutch Aemstelredam, from the river Amstel + dam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈam.stɛr.dam/, (colloquial, nonstandard) /amˈstɛr.dam/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛrdam
Syllabification: Am‧ster‧dam

Proper noun

Amsterdam m inan

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Declension

Declension of Amsterdam

	singular
nominative	Amsterdam
genitive	Amsterdamu
dative	Amsterdamowi
accusative	Amsterdam
instrumental	Amsterdamem
locative	Amsterdamie
vocative	Amsterdamie

Derived terms

adjective

amsterdamski

nouns

amsterdamczyk
amsterdamka

Portuguese

Proper noun

Amsterdam f

Alternative form of Amsterdã

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈam.ster.dam]

Proper noun

Amsterdam n

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Declension

declension of Amsterdam (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) Amsterdam	Amsterdamul
genitive/dative	(unui) Amsterdam	Amsterdamului
vocative	Amsterdamule

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ǎmsterdam/
Hyphenation: Am‧ster‧dam

Proper noun

Àmsterdam m (Cyrillic spelling А̀мстердам)

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Declension

Declension of Amsterdam

	singular
nominative	Amsterdam
genitive	Amsterdama
dative	Amsterdamu
accusative	Amsterdam
vocative	Amsterdame
locative	Amsterdamu
instrumental	Amsterdamom

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Proper noun

Amsterdam m (genitive singular Amsterdamu, declension pattern of dub)

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

References

Amsterdam in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /amsteɾˈdam/ [ãms.t̪eɾˈð̞ãm]
Rhymes: -am
Syllabification: Ams‧ter‧dam

Proper noun

Amsterdam m

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Amsterdam.

Proper noun

Amsterdam n (genitive Amsterdams)

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)

Amsterdam

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Azerbaijani

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Catalan

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Czech

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Danish

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Dutch

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Estonian

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Faroese

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Finnish

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French

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German

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Icelandic

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Italian

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Polish

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Portuguese

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Romanian

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Serbo-Croatian

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Slovak

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Spanish

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